Hey, seemed to work from 1936-1945. ;-) In all seriousness, there are
economists out there who promote military conflict as an economic
stimulus. Crazy, I know, and dangerous as hell.
My father still seems to think that FDR saw Lend-Lease as the perfect
segue from WPA-type stimuli to large-scale materiel production. The
real genius, he says, was parting-out production so that a thousand
little factories made the individual parts to create the tanks, planes,
rifles, etc. Most of these factories were languishing during the
pre-war years making products that no one could buy, but because they
had the tooling and technical knowledge, they made war materiel instead.
I have a WWII M1 Carbine made by the Underwood Typewriter Co. and a .45
cal. Liberator pistol stamped out of sheet metal by the Fisher Guide
Lamp Division of General Motors.
-----Original Message-----
From: Cerebral Palsy List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Kendall D. Corbett
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 1:36 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Okay, now that the election is over...
Kyle, et al.,
And by placing the economy on a war time footing we could consolidate
the
gains made by a WPA, except war funding would need to come first. Could
we
build enough Hummers to rescue GM?
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Cleveland, Kyle E. <
[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Oh, I don't know...Reagan's ending of the Cold War comes to mind.
Bush
> Sr.'s signing ADA legislation into law worked for me. Eisenhower's
> Interstate Road System seemed like a good idea. Nixon opened China's
> economy to the west (not sure how positive that is in retrospect, but
we
> got a few less nukes pointed at us out of the deal).
>
> Who knows, maybe Obama will be another FDR. Another WPA could rebuild
> our crumbling 60+ year-old infrastructure.
>
> Economically, one of the issues that we face that no one wants to
admit
> is that we ARE at war. And as such, our economy needs to be placed
onto
> a wartime footing. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan sound
> expensive--and they are. But they're actually being fought on the
> cheap. That's why it's taking us so long to achieve our strategic
> goals. Tactically, we're fine. Strategically, we're not; and I place
> the blame for that solely at the feet of Don Rumsfeld. Want someone
to
> blame for the morass in the sandbox? He's your man.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Of Michael H. Collis
> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 9:40 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Okay, now that the election is over...
>
> I have a question: Looking back over the history of this country,
are
> there many positive initiatives started by people we would consider to
> be conservative today?
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all
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